Absolute Beginner English
A syllabus to take students from speaking no English at all, to being able to fulfill basic communication needs.
Contains 20 suggested topics, 24 lesson plans, plus handouts and links to free TOEFL preparation and practice .

Dave's ESL Café
Super! - an on-line community for students and teachers: tips, exercises, word lists, grammar lessons and more.
Includes good collections of
idioms and
slang.

English Club
Lesson plans, handouts, activities, and articles for ESL teachers.

ESL Monkeys
Printable ESL lesson plans, activities and more. Materials have been contributed to the site by teachers
and others in the field. Lessons are rated by users of the web site.

ESL Teacher's Guide
Ideas and suggestions for teaching all levels of ESL, including a special section of 11 lessons focused on the
pre-literate student.

ESL PartyLand
Ideas and printable materials for ESL teachers. Has ideas for conversations, using music, videos and films to teach English.

The Internet TESL Journal
A website for "Teachers of English as a Second Language." Offers printable lesson plans, classroom handouts, and teaching
ideas in addition to articles, research papers and links to other sites.

Lanternfish
Printable ESL lesson plans, flashcards, activities, games, etc. The site is maintained by a group of ESL teachers whose aim
is to "bring printable quality resources to teachers and parents."

Web Links to Online ESL Activities for Students

Activities for ESL Students
There are over 1,000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles on this website. All are interactive online exercises; most of them require
the Shockwave player or a Javascript-enabled browser.

Internet Picture Dictionary
An online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students. Reinforcement activities include
flashcards and word scrambles. Words can be found by letter or categories.

Randall's ESL Lab
Fabulous site with dozens of listening exercises - requires a computer with sound card and speakers or headphones.

ESL Books and Periodicals with Photocopyable Activities and Lessons

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"R" indicates it is in the Reference section.
Many of these books are also available through King County Library System.

Drawing Out: Creative, Personalized, Whole Language Activities
by Sharron Bassano and Mary Ann Christison. Alta Book Center Publishers, 1995.
Fifty-four activities focus on student drawings as a means for encouraging students to become more
communicative in English.
Note: Only certain worksheets can be photocopied. Please see book for details.
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Periodicals:

Other Recommended ESL Books and Periodicals

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"R" indicates it is in the Reference section.
Many of these books are also available through King County Library System.

Basic Grammar in Use
by Raymond Murphy. Cambridge University Press,1993.
Concentrates on common grammar problems encountered by beginning and low-intermediate ESL students. Useful for reference and practice.

Jazz Chants
by Carolyn Graham. Oxford University Press, 1978
Chants and exercises to help students with American pronunciation and inflection. Other titles include
Small Talk
and Grammar Chants; books and audio tapes.

Longman Dictionary of American English
published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited, 2000.
Dictionary includes the 2000 most common English words. Authentic language samples are provided for each entry.
There are special usage notes for words of similar definition.

More About the USA: A Cultural Reader
by Milada Broukal and Janet Milhomme. Longman, 1996.
Information about American culture with vocabulary development, comprehension, and grammar activities.

Teaching Adults: An ESL Resource Book
by Laubach Literacy Action. New Readers Press, 1996.
Background information about adult ESL learners and English as a Second Language as well as 61 activities to use in lessons.

Tutoring ESL: A Handbook for Volunteers
by the Training Project at Tacoma Community House. Washington State, 1991.
The training manual used in the BASIC ESL training sponsored by Tacoma Community House.

Periodicals:

Easy English News
Monthly, except for July and August. The paper includes a monthly calendar & explanation of holidays, a discussion of some cultural issue dictionary of words used in each issue, a crossword puzzle, a page of idioms, and advice column.
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